“Somewhere up there, I can hear Steve screaming,” Dan Lyons claims via BBC News. “Everyone pretty much accepts that Apple will introduce [the iPhone 5], and there have been so many leaks that everybody pretty much seems to know what it’s going to be. Word is it will look a lot like the last two versions of the iPhone, except a bit thinner and a bit taller, with upgraded guts and a refreshed operating system.”

“If that’s correct, I imagine Steve is not happy. First of all, he’d be furious about the leaks. Steve liked surprising people,” Lyons writes. “More important, is this really the best we can expect from an outfit that claims to be the most innovative company in the world?”

Lyons claims, “The hardware on the iPhone has been the same for two years, since the iPhone 4 and 4S were virtually identical.”

MacDailyNews Note: Incorrect. The iPhone 4S hardware is a considerable advance over the iPhone 4:

Lyons continues, “Now, having had two years to plot and scheme, Apple’s renowned designer Jonathan Ive has replaced the tiny 3.5in (8.9cm) screen with a slightly-less-tiny 4in (10.2cm) screen? Wow. Knock me over with a feather. What do you do with the rest of your time, Jony? This is what happens when a company is too cheap to invest in research and development… Android’s market share is now four times that of Apple. Four times! Worse, despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one. Why is Apple making the iPhone bigger? To keep up with the top Android phones.”

“Apple also has become a copycat in tablets. Jobs once said the iPad’s 9.7in screen was the perfect size, and smaller tablets made no sense,” Lyons writes. “Then the Android camp had success with 7in tablets like Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7, and now Apple supposedly will announce its own smaller iPad in October. Talk about thinking different!”

“Apple got where it was by taking bold risks. Now it has become a company that copies others and plays it safe,” Lyons writes. “A company that once was run by a product visionary now is run by a number-cruncher – chief executive Tim Cook, whose claim to fame involves running an efficient supply chain and beating ever lower prices out of Asian subcontractors and component suppliers… Apple has become the one thing it should never be. Apple has become boring. Somewhere up there, I can hear Steve screaming.”

MacDailyNews Take: Talk about boring copying. Trot in a few more fallacies, exaggerations, and unproven accusations, Lyons, you hit-whore by rote.

Of course, Apple isn’t a copycat. Everybody’s copying Apple, just look at phones before iPhone and at phones today. And, as for a rumored 7.85-inch iPad mini, Jobs often talked down certain tech while Apple was working on it (see: iPods that play video and iPads that deliver e-books, for just two examples). Plus, the screen area of a 7-inch in 16:9 tablet would be dwarfed by a 7.85-inch 3:4 iPad mini. And, can we give the already tired “Tim Cook is just a number cruncher” meme a rest?

Everybody wants to be the next John Dvorak, even while the bloated Hawaiian-shirted gasbag still floats over the earth.

One more thing: We have a hunch that Steve Jobs wouldn’t allow the John Dvorak wannabe Dan Lyons to hear him make a peep from up there.

Yes, ’cause we all know that squeaking plastic-fantasic droids with huge margins and slits for no reason in odd colours (brown like shit S3, anyone?) and asymmetric holes and buttons are sooooooooo exciting, right?

They tell you to think want they want you to think, not what really is.

For example, that’s why in the U.S. currently, most media polls employ Democrat-leaning samples that will never match actual 2012 turnout ratios. The media, which sells ad time, needs to make the election close in order to reap the maximum political ad money possible. Just before the election, they’ll give you the real numbers to which I am already privy.

I have no idea who will win the 2012 presidential election. Since most polls don’t capture likelihood to actually cast ballots, I’m with you on this much: Romney is probably slightly ahead and the polls don’t show it. I disagree that it’s about political bias (if it is, then surely the same can be said and more so for your numbers, which are coming from Republican polling).

But I’m really curous to know this: If Obama winds up winning, who are you going to blame?

What is it about people like him that supports thieving outfits like SamDung. They make themselves complicit in the theft. Never could figure that one out. He remindes me of the guys that helped the Joker in Batman rob the bank. Once their job was done the Joker shot them dead. Kind of what Samsung does, once you buy their phone good luck upgrading it to a newer OS a year down the road. Yet people like Gupta suck Sammy’s cock every day. Go figure.

Well….. sort of.. That was Steve Jobs LHAO…. He sees Microsoft with Metro and the surface, and people like Dan Lyons trying their best to have something to write that still puts Apple down and brings Microsoft up… Micro — who?

I must admit that the iPhone does reek of boredom compared to the iPod lines. Notice I said “lines”, plural? iPhone is not gaining the pizazz of the multiple styles, colors and prices that won over iPod purchasers. I think they need to think back to that pizazz and apply it to the iPhone and broaden the product line. There would be the serious business model, an XL model and some fun and funky models for those that want to be more hip. Think of the diversity of Van or DC shoes. Not predicting doom and gloom for Apple and not jumping ship, but Apple needs to go back to its more playful roots of the iPod to help wow and win over successive generations.

We can buy cases in about a million different colors and designs, an option no other phone has. I happen to have about 10, which I use depending on the color or my shoes, etc. How about battery cases (dozens) and millions of other accessories. How many do other phones have?

. “More important, is this really the best we can expect from an outfit that claims to be the most innovative company in the world?”
OMG! Apple haven’t delivered an revolutionary, unexpected, mind blowing, game changing product for three years. The end is nigh. Apple will collapse into a singularity within the next three seconds